"The cathartic function of a technical invention or artistic or scientific discovery releases man, either physically (work) or at the psychological, social, etc. I want to show the cathartic function of a correct understanding myth. Frees Man (modern) of certain inhibitions that you were unable to love their own prehistory (and history). "
Mircea Eliade, August 14, 1966, entry in his diary.
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